Chandrabhushan
Pervez Musharraf was the military dictator of Pakistan, but two more powerful military dictators, General Zia-ul-Haq and Marshal Ayub Khan, have ruled this country for a long time before him. The only thing that puts Musharraf above both of his comrades is his shrewd diplomatic acumen, in which the other two dictators were almost blank. His death at the age of 79 in the United Arab Emirates from a strange illness that left him paralyzed will be seen as an injustice of fate to his very active military and political career. But remembering the deeds he did during his activism, his fans in South Asia might not be too sad.
India AAP Pervez Musharraf and then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee for Agra Agreement.
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Well, as a commando officer in the Pakistan Army, he served his country. Named his son after his officer Bilal who was killed in the Indo-Pak war of 1971. As a military officer achieved such a great status in Pakistan, which would be considered unimaginable for any other Mohajir who had gone from Delhi. But the other side of the matter is that as Pakistan army chief he did what none of his predecessors could even think of. Keeping Pakistan’s political leadership completely in the dark, he deployed a large army contingent along with terrorist groups to destroy a part of India by destroying the only road connecting Leh-Ladakh to India at that time. . This gang crossed the Indo-Pak Line of Control from the north-eastern part of Jammu and Kashmir and made strong positions in the mountains.
- Musharraf took this step at the exact time when both the countries had conducted nuclear tests a little earlier and were trying to present themselves as responsible nuclear neighbors to the world through the Lahore Agreement.
- For the then Vajpayee government, which had made the ‘Lahore Agreement’ with great fanfare, this act of the Pakistani army was embarrassing to such an extent that it did not even let the country know that Kargil had happened before taking immediate retaliatory steps. yes what’s up
- To get a sense of the chaos, just look at the timing. The Lahore Accord was signed in February 1999. Then immediately the parliaments of both the countries put a stamp on it. But in July 1999, the Kargil war broke out, in which even America struggled to stop it.
Even bigger wonder is that despite being badly beaten up in Kargil and beheading more than 400 Pakistani soldiers, and then refusing to even recognize them, Pervez Musharraf’s guts in Pakistan got worse. Musharraf took advantage of his popularity, which had increased after the Kargil war, among the Pakistani army and the people there, in such a way that he overthrew the Nawaz Sharif government at the first opportunity. In October 1999, the entire country was in his grasp. However, the biggest miracle was yet to happen in the story of ‘India-Pakistan and Musharraf’.
- Not even two years had passed since the Kargil war, when Pervez Musharraf arrived in Delhi, drumming up the ‘Agra Accord’ with a grandeur that no Pakistani ruler had ever had here.
- This agreement was to be in the spirit of the Lahore Agreement to establish permanent peace in both the countries, to end terrorism and to solve the Kashmir problem, but it could not be signed at the last moment.
- Both countries remembered only the Shimla Agreement of 1972, along with the Agra Agreement, the name of the Lahore Agreement was also forgotten.
- Pervez Musharraf played such a subtle game with America as well. On September 11, 2001, there was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
- America decided to start its war against terrorism from Afghanistan and the statement of US President George W. Bush came that whoever is not with him in this fight is against him.
- In such a situation, it was natural for Musharraf to show hesitation, but a few years later he told the world that he had received a call from US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage that if he did not give all possible cooperation during the deployment of American forces in Afghanistan, he would be bombed. Pakistan will be brought to the stone age.
- Through this confession, Pervez Musharraf wanted to give a message to his people that he had to stand with America under compulsion.
- Nevertheless, he not only took full advantage of this in dollar term, but also gave his protection to Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden by double crossing.
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The strange thing is that Musharraf has shown such games even in the typical Islamic world. He is a nationalist, people who claim to hoist the green flag on the White House and Red Fort should not expect any leniency from him, he said many times. Instead of Shariat Saudi Arabia, he always used to describe the modern nationalism of Turkey as his and Pakistan’s ideal. But when the Bhutto and Sharif families united to push him towards a bigger punishment after relinquishing power on the orders of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Musharraf grabbed the pallu of Saudi Arabia, who instead of hanging or jail, had a comfortable life in the UAE, and then Similarly the doors of death were opened for him.
Disclaimer: The views expressed above are the author’s own.
